Clothes-pounder.



J. Q. DEAL. -(ILOTHFS POUNDER. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 30, 1909.

Patented June 1, 1909.

Jljj man Qlk'dl- JEFFERSON Q. DEAL, OF WINFIELD, KANSAS.

CLOTHES-POUNDER.

Specification of Letters Fatent.

Patented June 1, 1909.

Application filed January 30, 1909. Serial No. 475,146.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Jnrrnnsox Q. DEAL, a citizen of the United States,residing at infield, in the county of Cowley and State of Kansas, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Founders, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in laundryappliances, and relates more particularly to that class of devices knownas clothes pounders.

The object of my invention is to provide a light, readily operated andinexpensive device adapted to be used in washing clothes.

By means of my invention, air is applied as an active agent in forcingthe detergent through the fabrics to be cleaned.

Other objects and advantages will be ap parent from the followingdescription, and it will be understood that changes in the specificstructure shown and described may be made within the scope of the claimswithout departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings forming a portion of this specification, and in whichlike characters of reference indicate similar parts in the severalviews, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of the apparatus, Fig. 2 isa bottom view thereof.

In carrying out the object of my invention, I employ a tube 9. This tubenear one end is provlded with the diaphragm 8 which serves as a stop forthe end of the handle 15. At the opposite end, this tube 9 is providedwith a flaring hexagonal casing 12, as clearly disclosed in Fig. 1.

Surrounding the tube 9 and extending from near the upper end thereof, isthe conical outer casing 5, the lower edge of which ends in the sameplane as that defining the end of the hexagonal casing 12. This conicalcasing 5 is approximately twice the length of the hexagonal casing 12.

A dished drum 6 surrounds the tube 9 and has its circumferential edgesecured to the casing 5 as disclosed. This drum divides the casing 5into an upper air chamber a and a lower air chamber 6. Held within thislower air chamber 5 is a flaring hexagonal-shaped shell or casing 16 thelower edge of which ends in alinement with the lower edges of theconical casing 5 and the hexagonal casing 12, as disclosed.

Within the six inner corners formed by this means there will be anescape of air through the duct 17 and openings 22.

The hexagonal casing 12 at its upper end is provided preferably withthree escape openings 20 so that the air within the chamher 0 may escapeinto the inner chamber formed by means of this hexagonal casing 12.

The outer conical casing 5 near its upper end is provided with a numberof air intake and escape openings 22 as clearly disclosed in Fig. 1.

The casing 5 is provided with a plurality of downwardly extendingSlllQlClS one flaring over each opening 22, the lower edge of eachshield ending in alinement with the lowermost point of the adjacentescape opening 22.

In the use of my clothes pounder, the fabrics to be cleaned are placedin a vessel together with a suitable detergent. The clothes pounder isthen driven into the suds and suddenly withdrawn which operation insuresthe detergent being forced through the fabrics. The air forced withinthe inner chamber finds an escape through the openings 20 into thecentral chamber formed by means of the hexagonal-shaped casing 12. Asthe ducts 17 are positioned near the edge of the shell a part of thisair will also escape over the lower edge into the outer chamber 7). Thisconstruction insures a counterbalancing draft and suction which not onlyagitates the water but forces the detergent through the fabrics to becleaned.

The device is light, simple and readily operated. 7

Having thus described my said invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by United States Letters Patent is:

1. A clothes pounder comprising a tube which near one end carries aflaring hexagonal casing, a conical casing secured to said tube, adished drum surrounding said tube and dividing said conical casing intoan upper and lower air chamber, a hexagonal flaring shell surroundingsaid hexagonal casing and extending from said drum, a plurality of airducts communicating with said upper chamber and traversing the length ofsaid shell and ending at the bottom thereof, said hexagonal casinghaving escape openings nea its upper end, said conical casing alsohaving an air inlet and escape way within its upper end.

2. A clothes pounder comprising a tube which near its upper end isprovided with a diaphragm and at the opposite end has a flaringhexagonal casing, a conical casing approximately twice the length ofsaid hexagonal casing secured to said tube and ending in the same planewith said hexagonal casing, a dished drum surrounding said tube anddividing said conical easing into an upper and lower chamber, ahexagonal flaring shell surrounding said hexagonal casing and extendingfrom said drum, a plurality of air ducts communicating with said upperchamber and traversing the length of said shell and ending at the bottomthereof, said hexagonal casing having an escape opening near its upperend, said conical casing also having air inlets and escape ways withinits upper end, and a shield flaring over each of said air inletopenings.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

JEFFERSON Q. DEAL.

Witnesses:

W. G. GRAHAM,

O. H. REYN OLDS.

